Position:

Departmental Lecturer for Buddhist Studies; Member of the Buddhist Studies Unit

Faculty / College Address:

Oriental Institute

Email:

jowita.kramer@orinst.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

• History of Buddhist philosophy
• Doctrines of the Yogācāra school
• Indian Buddhism and its reception in Tibet

Current Projects:

• Study of Sthiramati's Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā (with University of Vienna and China Tibetology Research Center, Beijing)
• Study of the Viṃśikā and its commentaries (with University of Leiden and National Chengchi University, Taipei)
• Internet database (with TBRC, New York) of lineage data extracted from the "records of teachings received" (gsan yig) of the Tibetan Sa skya pa master A mes zhabs Ngag dbang kun dga' bsod nams (1597-1659), accessible from here.

Courses Taught:

• Early Buddhist Doctrine and Practice
• Buddhism in History and Society
• Introduction to Buddhist Philosophy
• Readings in Buddhist literature

Recent Publications:

Books:

• Kategorien der Wirklichkeit im frühen Yogācāra: Der Fünf-vastu-Abschnitt in der Viniśca­ya­saṃgrahaṇī der Yogācārabhūmi. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag (Contributions to Tibetan Studies 4), 2005.
• A Noble Abbot from Mustang: Life and Works of Glo-bo Mkhan-chen (1456-1532). Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien (Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 68), 2008.
• The Concept of the Person in the Yogācāra Tradition: A Study and Edition of Sthiramati’s Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā.Habilitation thesis, Munich 2010 (edition of Sanskrit text forthcoming from China Tibetology Publishing House/Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, Beijing/Vienna).

Articles and Reviews:

• Review of Gedenkschrift J.W. de Jong, Bodewitz, H.W. & Hara, Minoru (eds.). Tokyo: The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, 2004. Indo-Iranian Journal 49, 2006, pp. 363-366.
• “On Sthiramati’s Pañcaskandhakavibhāṣā: A Preliminary Survey.” Nagoya Studies in Indian Culture and Buddhism: Saṃbhāṣā 27, 2008, pp. 149-171.
• “The Gsan yig of A mes zhabs: Observations Regarding Its Stylistic and Formal Features.” In: Orna Almogi (ed.), Contributions to Tibetan Literature. PIATS 2006: Tibetan Studies (Proceedings of the Eleventh Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Königswinter 2006). Halle: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, 2008, pp. 489-510.
• Review of K. R. Norman, A Philological Approach to Buddhism, Lancaster: The Pali Text Society, 2006. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 158 (1), 2008, pp. 228-230.
• Review of Helmut Eimer, Buddhistische Begriffsreihen als Skizzen des Erlösungsweges, Wien: Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien Universität Wien, 2006. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 160 (1), 2010, pp. 259-261.
• Review of Artemus B. Engle, The Inner Science of Buddhist Practice, The Tsadra Foundation Series, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2009. Indo-Iranian Journal 53, 2010, pp. 359-366.
• “A Study of the Saṃskāra Section of Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka with Refe­ren­ce to Its Commentary by Sthiramati.” In The Yogācārabhūmi and Its Adaptation in India, East Asia, and Tibet, Ulrich Timme Kragh (ed.), Harvard Oriental Series, Harvard University Press, 2012 (submitted for publication).
• “Indian Abhidharma Literature in Tibet: The Section on Vijñāna in Sthiramati’s Pañca­skandhaka­vibhāṣā.” In the Proceedings of the Conference “Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange (Singapore 2009)”, Tansen Sen (ed.), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (submitted for publication).
• “Descriptions of ‘Feeling’ (vedanā), ‘Ideation’ (saṃjñā), and ‘the Unconditioned’ (asaṃskṛta) in Vasubandhu’s Pañcaskandhaka and Sthiramati’s Pañcaskan­dhaka­­vibhā­ṣā.” Rochnik Orientalistyczny 2012:1 (submitted for publication).